On this page you can find all available downloadable resources for WhereIsIt version
3 and newer, from the latest version of the program itself, to add-ins like plugins,
additional language files and help files, etc.

Download the latest shareware version of WhereIsIt currently available. There is a
single downloadable version of WhereIsIt available for all users, including new users
who would like to try WhereIsIt for the first time, as well as for existing registered
users upgrading their current version. There are no separate language dependant releases,
just download and select the appropriate language file as an add-on to the program.
This standard shareware release package includes both main plugin modules, English help
file, as well as German and English language files. Other additional resources are
available as separate downloads.

To download and install WhereIsIt, download and run the provided installation program.
Installation program is digitally signed for authencity.

Alternatively, you can download ZIP compressed package containing files necessary to run
the program without installation (not recommended). This package is only provided for
special cases, like using the program as a portable version on an USB stick or a CD-ROM. All
files and executable are exactly the same as above, only packaging is different.
After downloading, unpack the ZIP file into a target folder of your choice and make sure to
preserve folder structure when unpacking. Once unpacked, the program can be run by
double-clicking WhereIsIt.exe file.

WhereIsIt Lite is a freeware companion to WhereIsIt program, acting as reader and
browser for catalogs created with full version of WhereIsIt. It requires no installation and
can be run directly from a CD-ROM, or some other media. Distributing WhereIsIt
Lite is allowed without limitations, and is typically used to allow other users who
don't use WhereIsIt themselves to read and browse catalogs you have created. For
more details, see the product information page on WhereIsIt Lite.

WhereIsIt? needs to have COMCTL32.DLL updated to version 5.00.2614.3600 or
newer in order to run properly. As updating this system library is rarely
needed nowdays, WhereIsIt 3.50 and newer no longer ship with this update
included in the download package, but it can be downloaded separately
if required. WhereIsIt's setup program will check if COMCTL32.DLL needs to be
updated; if so, it will not allow installation to proceed until update is
successfully in place.
Alternate download location: Microsoft

It is highly recommended that you have valid ASPI drivers installed on your Windows
95/98/ME system while using WhereIsIt. While ASPI layer is not mandatory for WhereIsIt
to run, it is used when found, as it handles CD-ROM drive access and helps with
calculating peroperly CDDB query details. Note that certain third-party ASPI drivers,
commonly shipping with CDR software are not standard and can cause problems in WhereIsIt
and other applications using ASPI layer. If you are experiencing problems accessing
CD-ROM or removable drives in WhereIsIt, re-installing the original Adaptec ASPI drivers
may often help to resolve the issue. This download should not be required for Windows
NT4/2000/XP users, as newer SPTI is used on those system instead of ASPI, although ASPI
drivers still work and are commonly used there as well.
Alternate download location: Adaptec

Plugins for Where Is It?

Starting with version 2.00, the program implements the Description API, a special
programming interface that allows developing plugins separately from the rest of
the program. Plugins handle advanced tasks in the process of scanning a media,
such as extracting and providing the program with descriptions or thumbnails that
will be stored in a catalog. Anybody with sufficient programming skills to develop
a regular DLL library, in any programming language, can extend WhereIsIt's
description and thumbnails importing capabilities by providing the program with a
new plugin. If you have a description or thumbnail source that WhereIsIt can not
use at this time, for example, a text file in a non-supported format, you can write
your own plugin that will process such files and allow WhereIsIt to automatically
import descriptions from that source.

The "Main Description Plugins" module is the one that takes care of importing
most of supported description sources in WhereIsIt. This module is always
included in the downloadable program package, however module available here
may be newer and allows you to update description support without having to
download the entire program.

This plugins module is already included and installed with the program package. You
may only need to download it if the version published here is newer than the one you
already have.

"Graphics Plugins" is a supplemental plugins module for importing details
about most often used graphic file formats in use today. All description plugins
provide details such as width, height, and color depth of the picture, and most
of them (GIF, JPG, TIFF, PSD, and PNG) can extract more detailed information,
if available, as well - for example, digital camera information (EXIF), or IPTC-NAA
description fields, embedded in the image file.
Thumbnails plugins are in charge of importing actual images from graphic files and
allow WhereIsIt to store their thumbnail versions in catalog. Their secondary task
is also to provide support for the internal file viewer, for viewing images in their
full size from the media.

This plugins module is already included and installed with the program package. You
may only need to download it if the version published here is newer than the one you
already have.

Plugin history:

Version 5.20 Added new runtime plugin: TV Series Database (TheTVDB).Version 5.21 Improvements to the IMDB, TheTVDB plugins.Version 5.22 IMDB plugin: Adjusted for movie cast related changes on the IMDB site.Version 5.30 Added XMP metadata support in several different description plugins.Version 5.31 TV Series Database (TheTVDB) plugin updated to version 1.10, improvements to
series title/episode detection, additional options for improved batch processing with less user input.Version 5.33 IMDB plugin, TheTVDB plugin: added options to import formatted movie/series/episode
titles as alias names, several other minor changes and fixes.Version 5.36 IMDB plugin, TheTVDB plugin: better file name filtering and title/episode detection,
improved Unicode support, improved OFDB support.Version 5.37 IMDB plugin: Updated for changes on IMDB site's search results page.Version 5.38 IMDB plugin: Updated for additional filtering of unnecessary HTML tags.Version 5.40 IMDB plugin: Added support for importing information from international IMDB sites in
different languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese)Version 5.41 Added new thumbnails plugin: Windows Shell Thumbnails.Version 5.43 IMDB plugin: Updated for changes on IMDB site, fixed large thumbnails importing.
Optimized the Windows Shell Thumbnails performance.Version 5.44 TV Series Database (TheTVDB) plugin updated to support special episodes.Version 5.50 Rewritten Video Player for capturing video frames as thumbnails to version
2.0, now running on Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well.Version 5.51 Workaround in the TV Series Database (TheTVDB) plugin for an apparent bug in XML
data structre returned by TheTVDB.com.Version 5.52 IMDB plugin: Updated for large scale changes on the IMDB web site, featuring
a completely new web site design. Note that the new design is not yet by default accessible to all
users, and plugin currently supports both old and new IMDB design. Languages other than English are
not tested at this time since the new design is not yet available for other languages. Beta version.Version 5.57 IMDB plugin: Updated to support new techniques recently used on the IMDB web site,
for example AJAX loading of details like user comments.Version 5.60..5.63 Updated IMDB plugin for changes on the IMDB web site.Version 5.65 Integrated CorelDRAW Graphics Thumbnails plugin and added support for CorelDRAW X4 and newer .CDR files.Version 5.70 Added EPUB E-Books Cover Thumbnails plugin.Version 5.71 Updated IMDB plugin for a new search page on the IMDB web siteVersion 5.72 Updated IMDB plugin for changes on the IMDB web site.Version 5.73, 5.74 Updated IMDB plugin, fixed Unicode formatting and importing user reviews.Version 5.75 Updated IMDB plugin for changes on the IMDB web site.Version 5.80 Added support for extracting GPS geo-tagged location from EXIF data.

This module handles importing details about audio CD disks. Three related plugins
are currently available, each handling a different possible source of descriptions.
All plugins are capable of setting CD's name and track file's alias names to title/
author details, as well as importing textual information such as play time and
additional details as descriptions.

This plugins module is already included and installed with the program package. You
may only need to download it if the version published here is newer than the one you
already have.

A single plugin in this module is a wrapper around Dave Coffin's
dcraw.c project,
capable of decoding raw photos from many different types of digital camera (599
digital cameras are currently supported).

This plugins module is already included and installed with the program package. You
may only need to download it if the version published here is newer than the one you
already have.

The AutoCAD plugin can extract and import embedded thumbnails in AutoCAD's
.DWG files, where available. Please note that not all DWG files include
thumbnails, and only DWG files created with AutoCAD R13 and newer support
thumbnails in the first place. Older DWG files will not cause problems,
however they are of no use to this plugin.Full Delphi source code is included.

This module contains a simple plugin capable of automatically importing
user-defined frames from video files as thumbnails. Plugin uses DirectX
functionality to get basically all of the job done, pretty much the same
way as Windows Explorer does when generating thumbnails. Stability and
functionality of the plugin depends heavily on installed system
components, especially available video codecs and DirectX drivers.
Note that video files are likely to be encountered that will be causing
problems, and may consequently cause scanning to fail or take a long time.
Because of such issues, this plugin is not officially a part of WhereIsIt
and is not supported in any way. Use on your own responsibility!

The Adobe Acrobat PDF Thumbnails plugin creates and extracts a thumbnail of
the first available page in a given PDF document. The plugin simply calls
out Adobe Acrobat through its COM interface for the task. As plugin heavily
relies on installed third-party software, it is not officially a part of
WhereIsIt and is not supported in any way. Use on your own responsibility!Full Delphi source code is included.

This module includes two plugins, capable of automatically importing user-
defined text files as descriptions for either parent items (folders), or
files themselves. This feature was in high demand among WhereIsIt users,
however it is likely to produce much larger catalog files with importing
more or less irrelevant text. Because of that, this plugin is not officially
a part of WhereIsIt and is not supported in any way. Use on your own
responsibility!

Plugins below are third-party plugins, developed by other authors. While no
known problems exist, these plugins are not supported
nor tested, use on your own risk. Note that a bad plugin can cause problems
during scanning, and can cause scanning to fail. For any questions or comments
about there plugins, please contact their authors directly.

This plugin extracts and imports descriptions, included in every GHOST disk image,
created with Norton Ghost software, version 6.5 os newer. This version is tested
with GHOST images version 5.1 to 6.51. No experiences with version 7...Description plugins:
Norton GHOST Image Description (*.GHO)

This module includes a single plugin, intended for extracting and importing
GEOS long filenames and file descriptions. GEOS (Graphical Environment Operating
System) stands for GeoWorks Ensemble(r) and NewDeal Office(r), graphical user
interfaces based on DOS with true type fonts, text processing, drawing, database,
calculating sheets... This version does not translate German special characters
(like ä, ö, ü) from the GEOS-file. It seems to work with version 1.2
files, as well as with version 2.xx and 3.xx.Description plugins:
GEOS-File (*.GEO, *.0*, *.1*, *.2*, *.3*, *.4*,...)
Directory-Name (@DIRNAME.*)

A thumbnail plugin that provides a bitmap preview of TrueType font files. An excellent
plugin with professional and configurable results, a must have for all True-type fonts
collectors. A well illustrated readme file with instructions is included.Thumbnail plugins:
TrueType Preview Thumbnails (*.TTF)

If you have developed your own plugins and would like to make them public on these pages, send them in for evaluation.

Where Is It? Language Files

WhereIsIt? has full multi-language support, meaning you can choose one of prepared
languages to be used in program's user interface. You can easily switch languages while
program is running, and even make your own translations or changes to language files.
Each language file is packed as a self-extract compressed file. To install a language file,
just run the downloaded package and select to extract it to the WhereIsIt's folder. The
next time WhereIsIt is run, installed language will appear on list of available languages
to choose from.

Disclaimer
Most of the language files listed here were prepared by volunteers, not by professionals. Each
translation's author takes full credits as well as full responsibilities for the quality and
usability of his/hers language file. Consider these language files as third-party add-ons,
while the only officially supported language in the program remains to be English.

These language files are only to be used with WhereIsIt version 2010 and newer. Language
files for older 2.xx and 3.xx versions are also available.

Language files listed below were prepared for version 3.xx and need to be updated. They can be used
in version 2014, however some user interface elements may not be translated and will appear in
English. Please refer to the WhereIsIt's help file for details how you can update existing language files
yourself.

WhereIsIt can have more than one help file installed with the program to support multiple
languages. Program can switch the active help file together with language setting in the
program, without the need to restart the program. Listed below are all currently available
translations of WhereIsIt's help file. Please note that English language file is used by
default and is already included with the program.

Disclaimer
Most of the help files listed here were prepared by volunteers, not by professionals. Each
translation's author takes full credits as well as full responsibilities for the quality and
usability of his/hers help file. Consider these help files as third-party add-ons, while the
only officially supported language in the program remains to be English.

Description API 2.20 is a programming interface, used for developing plugins for WhereIsIt.
This download includes complete specifications of DescAPI interface, the necessary header
files for both Delphi and C++, and full Delphi source code for a simple sample plugin. Please
note that DescAPI documentation and samples are also included in the main program package, and
are installed together with the program, if so selected.